Entrepreneurial Mind: First Week of Discussion

Entrepreneurial Mind is a subject which requires a broad imagination of ideas and concepts. This past week, the discussions of basic principles and behavioral patterns in entrepreneurship have been applied in our activities.

           For this week’s lesson, we discussed the behaviors which entrepreneurs and business tycoons have possessed. These behavioral patterns are guidelines to young entrepreneurs on getting their way to success. On this discussion, there’s a behavior that I can relate to, the perfection vs. good enough. Between these two behaviors, before, I thought it was better to keep working on perfecting your product and to perfectly plan your business before marketing it. But it’s not. I’ve learned that perfection in your mindset is just keeping you from being versatile and being innovative.

           One activity that requires your confidence and reasoning skill is the nerve-wracking Rejection Therapy. Rejection Therapy is an activity to train students to be accustomed to getting rejected by people. Furthermore, this requires us to ask questions answerable by a “No.” But what I’ve learned is that it is okay to be rejected and a “No” is not a conclusion, it’s a hypothesis which made you brainstorm about the factors or reasons why they rejected your proposal.

           As aspirant in the field of business, we were trained to be articulate on our ideas making this one activity a core to this lesson, communication skills. It taught me how important a well-expressed idea is and how I am far from having this such skill because communication with your partner supposed to be comprehensible but ours is not. The outcome of our drawing explains all.

           Overall, these activities help me to get out of my comfort zone and explore the world of the capitalist and how they perceive things.